Summary
Achieved 21+ years of coordinating international teams to develop desktop, Ecommerce and SaaS applications. In-depth experience in Business Intelligence, Advertising, Retail, Medical, Energy, Government and Telecommunications industry. Broad experience across financials, supply-chain, manufacturing, P&L, M&A, logistics and teaching SOX/ITIL best practices. Developed Engineering, IT, Finance, and HR best practice processes for over 50 companies. Former Top Secret US Security Clearance.
Current Languages: Java/J2EE, C#, Objective C, C/C++, JavaScript, PERL, PHP, Visual Basic, BIRT, HTML, Voice XML, XML. Have also coded: Ada, Lisp, ICON, PHP, PERL, smalltalk, Pascal, Object Pascal, Tango, Assembly (intel, motorola, embedded).
Frameworks: iOS, Cocoa, .net, MFC, MVC, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, node.js, jQuery, AJAX.
Open Source: Apache, CVS, Bugzilla, JBoss, JTest, PostFix, N/Hibernate, MySQL, Netscape/iPlanet (LDAP, Web, Calendar).
Commercial: Cognos, Endeca, Omniture, Documentum, Vantive, Vignette, WebSphere, WebSphere Commerce, WebLogic, Tomcat, Unica, Endeca, SAS, SPSS, Mathematica.
Databases: SQL Server, Oracle (6 to 11g RAC), DB2, OpenBase SQL, FrontBase SQL, Access, Btrieve, Sybase, Hadoop, MongoDB, MySQL, Sybase.
Graphic Design: OmniGraffle, Adobe (All versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, InDesign, Flash, Fireworks, Acrobat), Intergraph, Lightwave, Autocad, 3D Studio Max.
ERP: Great Plains, Oracle (eBusiness Suite, Siebel, Customer Relationship Management), PeopleSoft (Financials and HR), SAP (R2, R3, Financials, Supplier Relationship Management, Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management), Great Plains, Axapta, Chempax.
Platforms: Apache, WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss, WebObjects, IIS, and WordPress.
OS: Unix (RedHat, AIX, Solaris, MacOS, BSD), Windows Server, IBM MVS, and VAX/VMS.
Specialties:Managing the system development life cycle (SDLC) process, including staffing, budgeting, infrastructure, requirements, design, scaling, quality assurance, operations, support, security, availability, capacity, strategic planning, mergers, vendor negotiations, risk analysis and SOX, PCI, ISO compliance, documentation and audit. Implementing Lean principles and effective processes from COSO, COBIT, ITIL, GAIT, and methodologies from Waterfall, XP and Agile.
VP of Engineering @ From October 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Austin, Texas AreaSr. Director Engineering @ From February 2014 to October 2014 (9 months) Austin, Texas AreaSr. Director of Engineering @ Worked with New Product Development, Sales and Services. Created products based on aggregating medical data from hospital and vendor systems to provide insight, business intelligence, and usage data to improve process, efficiency, risk mitigation, financials and help save lives.
• Delivered 36 software releases to production and grew team from hands on to 27 in US and India.
• Architected and developed SAS solution to aggregate PQRS data as input for multiple products.
• Started Development Tools, Infrastructure, and Process (DevTIP) team of 4 to share resources, implement best practices and Lean based development metrics across all product teams.
• Started Development Operations (DevOps) team of 5 to manage 500+ development servers to support 300 developers and 12 products. Architected and built scalable cloud environment. Migrated team to IT.
• Taught classes to development team in MVC design patterns, TDD and iOS development.
• Developed HR, Finance, Security, and Legal best practices, policies and procedures. From June 2010 to February 2014 (3 years 9 months) Sr. Director Solutions @ Managed team of Business Analysts, Project Managers, UX, Information Architects and QA staff for online - offline marketing strategies. Worked with executives, account managers, client services, strategists, and creative’s, to deliver transactional and organic growth with increased profitability. Consolidated CRM analytics team, managed transition from print to digital agency, and created Technology Product departments. Key projects:
• Worked with super large transactional data sets with POS, web, social and mobile data to create a comprehensive set of cross-channel marketing capabilities for clients.
• Supervalu: Designed and developed ecommerce strategy and implementation plan for Java/Oracle based website for 13 divisions consisting of 2500 retail stores with $37 Billion annual revenue. Upsold multi-year digital, creative, and media strategy. Developed integrated Datamart, developed email Campaigns, and developed email capture system.
• US Treasury, Bank of America and First Data: Received five company awards for rescuing derailed project, managed design team of online tax payment solution, optimized for managing $5 Trillion in transactions/year, performed section 508 compliant coding and testing with screen readers, solidified relationship with client and third party vendors, and upsold a second project.
• ExxonMobil and HTEC: Managed development and performed business analysis of CRM and Loyalty System in SQL for EU business unit. Completed initial pilot and helped to close multi-year engagement for Business Intelligence reporting.
• Best Buy: Developed SaaS application to coordinate marketing between corporate and retail stores. Got an award. From May 2009 to June 2010 (1 year 2 months) Director of IT Audit @ Worked for Big 4 accounting spin-offs from Ernst and Young (HMPP) and Accenture (Morgan Garris). Conducting over 110 IT Governance, Risk, SOX, PCI, SAS70, ISO and GAAP audit's in addition to IT Management consulting for over 40 Fortune 500 companies. Audit review with Ernst and Young, PriceWaterhouse, Deloitte, Accenture, BDO Seidman, Grant Thornton, DOJ, and SEC.
• SandRidge: Managed, lead, developed and implemented IT, Finance and HR operations with SOX compliance for five companies from acquisition, merger to $4.5 Billion IPO (NYSE: SD).
• ABB/Aibel: Lead team of 200+ consulting and client staff for 18 worldwide locations being investigated for violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Designed and implemented processes, tools, and testing techniques for Finance, HR and IT controls for SOX.
• Implemented Oracle eBusiness Suite for Golfsmith, Vignette, Activant, Austin Regional Clinic, Covenant Systems, and Bennett Transport. SAP Implementation for Silicon Labs and Cirrus Logic.
• SandRidge: Managed merger of IT, Finance and HR for M&A of five companies for a $4.5 Billion IPO (NYSE: SD).
• Aibel/ABB: Lead team of 200+ staff for defending against Dept of Justice Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
• Clients included: ABB/Aibel, CoreLabs, Global Oilfield Services, New Park Resources, SandRidge, Tesco, and Vetco Gray/GE, Abraxas, Activant, Active Power, Austin Regional Clinic, Bennett Transport, Cirrus Logic, Cisco, Covenant Systems, Data Foundry, EZCorp, Golfsmith, Grande Communications, Motive, SigmaTel, Silicon Labs, Staktek, Symantec, Teres Solutions, TradeOne Marketing, Vignette, Wayport, and Whole Foods. From January 2005 to May 2009 (4 years 5 months) CIO / Director of IT @ Orchestrated IT, Operations, Help Desk, 4 Data Centers and 2 office facilities for eCommerce and SaaS web development startup with 40 staff call center, 15 developers, and 5 admins with a $6 MM IT Infrastructure budget.
• Optimized development to production life cycle with Engineering, QA and Product Marketing to transition from fire-fighting rollouts to well planned low risk 2-week Agile Java/Tomcat release cycles.
• Optimized eCommerce website flow and reduced registration and purchase complexity by 65%.
• Integrated Xen, VMWare, and iSCSI virtualization in the Data Center for 70% reduction in servers.
• Performed a combined PCI, ISO 17779, SAS70 and SOX Audit saving $400K in proposed consulting fees.
• Resolved billing and service issues with XO Communications, Time Warner, Oracle, Voxeo, Dell and EMC. From February 2008 to June 2008 (5 months) VP Operations and Development @ Created Sony Music ecommerce division, responsible for technology integration for marketing strategy, and P&L. Grew staff to 35, with additional outsourced staff in Pakistan and India. Managed 3 data centers used by 2 fulfillment warehouses; Administrated engineering budget of $30MM.
• Architected, developed, optimized and maintained SaaS ecommerce B2B and B2C websites with collaboration to 300+ Musician Vendor, Marketing/Ad agencies, Legal and Creative teams.
• Saved $25MM in consulting fees by reducing project development time from 36 months to 8 months (78%).
• Optimized high usage websites for U2, Britney Spears, Madonna, Kiss, Alan Jackson, and The Beatles.
• Developed PMO to implement Lean principles and best practices from COBIT, ITIL, and PCI
• Redesigned forecasting and workflow by leveraging Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and advanced statistical techniques with customer behavioral segmentation for Business Intelligence and ROI analysis. From December 2000 to January 2005 (4 years 2 months) Consulting Engagement Manager @ Created Western US consulting services division for the WebObjects retail product, responsible for client strategy, analysis, and P&L. Grew sales to $16 MM annually. Grew team of 9 to 22 focusing on B2B and B2C applications. Worked with sales in RFP/BID, ROI, initial project scoping, developing technical project overview, architecture, presenting to clients, and managing project managers.
• Architected, planned, and developed 11 systems for: Alcatel, Bike.com, EcommerceSoft, Nortel, Navigators Insurance, and Sorenson Video.
• Sony Music: Architected and lead team to convert silo ecommerce websites to dynamic Software as a Service ecommerce engine for Britney Spears, Madonna, Alan Jackson, The Beatles and Thalia. Developed plan to integrate to 300 music vendors.
• Verizon: Lead Architect for 400 internal IT and Marketing staff to develop web front-end architecture and plan to integrate four IT organizations for merger.
• Intermountain Health Care: architected HIPAA compliant patient tracking system using VB, Java, Oracle and Tuxedo. Helped to package and sell product to 3M for resale.
• Southwest Airlines: evaluated Sun Sparc & IBM AIX clusters to migrate reservation system from SGI Cray. Managed team from client, IBM and SUN for evaluation of Lisp, C and assembly code transition to allow Southwest Airlines to double fleet size by 2005. From January 1999 to December 2000 (2 years) Sr. Webmaster Manager @ Managed all NAFTA intranet websites and set international standards for content. Managed and mentored team of 83 in supporting 197,000 employees with a budget of $28 MM.
• Optimized and consolidated 300+ application servers to 28 (91%).
• Developed executive business intelligence reporting system using with Cognos and Oracle.
• Implemented front end integration with WebFocus, PeopleSoft HR, Oracle Financials with migration to SAP. From March 1997 to January 1999 (1 year 11 months) Development Manager @ Managed eight staff and a budget of $5 MM.
• Architected and deployed first Dillards.com retail ecommerce website in 1996.
• Created CAD to Purchasing/Project management application in C++, reducing average store planning time from 78 weeks to 6 weeks (92%).
• Purchasing automation resulted in reduced purchasing staff from 21 to 2 (90% reduction). From January 1993 to March 1997 (4 years 3 months) Dancer @ From January 1992 to December 1992 (1 year) Fort Worth, TexasSenior Programmer/Help Desk Manager @ • Engineered code in C, C++, DCL, Pascal, and Assembly. Managed interns.
• Managed help desk staff of 40 supporting 14,000 users and 28 computer labs. From June 1988 to December 1992 (4 years 7 months)
BSE, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Math and Mechanical Engineering @ Baylor Universityditto @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ammad Jilani is skilled in: Integration, Agile Methodologies, SaaS, SDLC, Security, CRM, ITIL, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Management, Business Intelligence, Budgets, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Microsoft SQL Server, Negotiation, Software Project..., Business Process, Cloud Computing, Vendor Management, Leadership, Process Improvement, Visio, ERP, Product Management, Data Center, Infrastructure, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mergers, Start-ups, Scalability, Analysis, Oracle, Payment Industry, Databases, COBIT, Architectures, E-commerce, Consulting, Unix, Testing, User Experience, Web Development, Java, JavaScript, C#, SQL, Linux, Architecture
Websites:
http://www.ammad.com